Job Hunting Resources

The job search process is never easy, but there are ways to improve your chances of landing a job. Here are tips on finding job opportunities, resume writing, interviewing, and other ways to help you stand out from other candidates. Use the links below to jump to any section.

5 Fatal Assumptions of Job Seekers
Many people are job hunting these days. Wise Bread blogger Julie Rains has worked with job seekers for many years and have found that these five common assumptions frequently derail a job search.

6 Warning Signs That It's Not the Job for You
You're scouting around for a decent job. While you realize that great jobs are hard to find, you're avoiding getting into a position that really stinks. Here are 6 tell-tale characteristics of generally lousy jobs, and why it may be best to cut-and-run.

How to Prepare a Plain Text Resume
If you are applying for jobs online, the best and most useful formatting for a resume is plain text. This post is a short guide to preparing your resume in plain text.

Professional Resume Services: Are They Worth Paying For?
When applying for a job, you need to be sure that you stand out significantly from the rest of the applicants. One sure way to accomplish this is with a resume that really pops and sparkles. Here are some of the advantages that a professional resume service can offer you.

Mastering the Interview

5 Tips to Acing an Interview
You want to be the person they don't soon forget. The person who stands out — the one who they can see themselves working with on a daily basis. To do that, you have to be more than just another resume.

How to Recognize and Answer Illegal Interview Questions
In the United States job seekers are protected by a myriad of anti-discrimination laws, but many potential employers may still ask probing questions. Here is how you can recognize which questions are potentially illegal for an employer to ask, and what you can do if you encounter these questions.

Other Ways to Stand Out

What Is Your Dutch Wife?
Blending in is only a winning strategy if they're going to hire everybody. Standing out by being the most qualified is best, but standing out for any reason at all can make the difference. This is the story of the dutch wife.

6 Ways to Use Technology to Upgrade Your Career
The Internet is a boon for doing all kinds of things — including getting a better job and/or getting paid more at your current job. Here are 6 ways to use technology to upgrade your career.

Networking Basics for Regular People
Competition for jobs is fierce but networking is one way of differentiating yourself as a stellar candidate. Here are some of their tips on networking basics.

Deciding When to Follow Instructions
Anytime someone announces that they're looking to hire, there'll be instructions on how to apply. There's a delicate dance involved in deciding just how completely to follow those instructions. Here are a few of the important steps.

How to Get a Job: Learn the Secret From a Bad Movie
Blogger Philip Brewer has read a bunch of books on how to do a job search. They all talk about networking. They all talk about researching the company. They all talk about "creating" a job. He's read the books, but he didn't understand what they meant, until he saw this really bad movie.

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